Tiger Woods 9/11 Call And Here Comes Gloria

And here comes Gloria Allred, who is getting ready to represent Rachel Uchitel. Rachel flew from NY to LA today where Gloria picked her up at LAX. Gloria and her "maligned" client list go way back. It seems all of her clients are "maligned" females, from a "biting victim" in the Marv Albert case to Amber Frey to a nanny in the Rob Lowe lawsuit and the Octomom, and countless others. (Note: I like Gloria personally.) Go, Gloria, if anyone can keep the Enquirer on their toes, it's you. Come to think of it, how come Rielle Hunter didn't call Gloria?

she does tend to draw the eye....even if the client disappears Gloria does not and there seems to be this ghost victim she represents that gets to feed on the sensationalization. Not a good thing for Tiger INC.

on Nancy Grace (he's collected a lot of clients in these highly publicized and slightly weird Florida cases recently), and he seems calm, sober and understated. In other words, he bears not the slightest resemblance to Johnnie Cochran in style, as the description in the link would have it. Maybe he's a tiger (so to speak...) in the courtroom, but he certainly isn't a show-off on TV.

First his wife's story to police is simply not credible. Second, the actual story of what happened may very well have involved some domestic violence. Third, by his own admission he was groggy from painkillers, and it's against the law to get behind the wheel if you're impaired by any substance.

Come to think of it, maybe most important is Florida's "sunshine" law, under which virtually everything, including police interrogations, is released to the public. Given all the above, seems to me it would be fairly easy to end up stepping in it and getting charged with something, which would then trigger the public release of all the incredibly embarassing investigative raw material. So Nejame's job, I think, is just to prevent that from happening.

In Florida, they even release to the public audio and video of jailhouse conversations between people detained for trial and their family members. Horrible. (Not that that would happen to Woods, but just to say how far the sunshine law extends.)

That is the advice competent, even incompetent, attorneys give their clients in any situation where there is a possible crime and the police are investigating. There would be far fewer convictions if people took that advice to heart. People are always thinking they can talk their way out of things and they cannot. If the police are going to arrest or charge you it will not matter what you say. If they aren't going to arrest you nothing good can happen from talking to them or giving a statement.

Besides, Tiger Woods is a very private guy and goes out of his way to maintain that privacy. His yacht is named "Privacy." He can now say to everyone, and that includes the media, that he would like to discuss and talk about it with them, but he cannot based on advice from his attorney. And "next question, please!"

All that corporate advertising money may decide a different approach is required---and a different program may come into play. But Tiger is going to have to want to play. He really is rich. He can still play golf at a championship level. It looks to me like he has command of this situation and is doing exactly what he and his attorney want. Don't we wish there were more clients like that.

but if you want the masses to leave you alone when something happens in your life of balloon boy status, you have to get an attorney who isn't camera shy. And that attorney will remind and point out to everyone when they are being jerks. If I was in this, I would be lawyered up yesterday.

TMZ (yes, a gossip site, but they usually get it right) is reporting the cops in Florida are looking to get a search warrant for Tiger's medical records from the accident to establish whether his injuries were from the crash or from domestic violence. They have to have probable cause to believe a crime was committed, so they presumably have some info which leads them to believe it could have been domestic violence.

if convicted of a felony. I believe the immigration laws refer to "aggravated felony," which includes a "crime of violence" for which the sentence is more than one year. I'm not a lawyer, but I would assume that would include domestic violence.

if it isn't simply Tiger wanting to keep a family matter as private as possible...I'd imagine very few men, if any, would want to talk to the police and drop a dime about their old lady beating on them, if that is in fact the case here.

that Tiger had been drinking or on some drugs and didn't want a breathalizer test. Is that required in Florida when an accident occurs? As for his wife beating him up; where have I been? I hadn't heard that one. Tiger has a fantastic build and doesn't look like he can't hold off an attack by a female. Another question: If a guy tells his wife that he is having an affair and she takes golf clubs to his car, is that domestic violence?

his wife made any statements/admissions re cause of accident or ingestion of any meds. Also, if hospital collected urine or blood sample, this would be reflected in medical record as well as results of any tests for alcohol, meds, controlled substances.

Most college students expect to receive their diplomas on the basis of grades, but at a Pennsylvania school, physical fitness matters too.

Students at Lincoln University with a body mass index of 30 or above, reflective of obesity, must take a fitness course that meets three hours per week. Those who are assigned to the class but do not complete it cannot graduate.

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Now that the first class to have this requirement imposed is nearing graduation day -- students who entered in the fall of 2006 -- the school faces criticism from both students and outsiders about the fitness class policy.

One of those students is Tiana Lawson, 21, whose recent editorial in the student paper has drawn national attention to the issue. Lawson wrote in The Lincolnian that she would be more understanding if the requirement applied to everyone. She thinks all students, not just those with a high BMI, should have to take the class.